All is not lost though, as Springer says there has been increasing momentum in recent years of companies trying to help users through the process of cleaning up their social media image.

Google has released its “undo” feature for Gmail, which gives users the opportunity to cancel sending an email for up to 30 seconds after they’ve hit send.

“If you just Google, ‘delete tweets,’ you can see the different apps that come up. I think the trick with those is that you have to give them access to your Twitter account,” she says.

There’s an app called Tweeticide, which Springer describes as “the nuclear option for Twitter,” deleting all of your tweets in one fell swoop.

An app called Clear is currently in beta, and it uses the IBM Watson supercomputer to look through a user’s social media history and flag things that they might want to delete.

While there are more options popping up all the time, Springer tells us the best approach is simply to treat everything you post on the Internet as though it’s permanent and to try to avoid making those mistakes in the first place.

Embattled Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema is hitting back at critics of his anti-gay and anti-Muslim Web postings, saying he stands on the same issues he always has: "God, family and country."

In a Facebook post, the former state representative says people are feeding half-truths to the news media within the GOP and stirring up divisiveness.

He says he's wrongly being blamed for posting other people's comments and says it's an unfortunate and uncivil tactic to tarnish his reputation.

Rick Pluta, Lansing bureau chief for the Michigan Public Radio Network and co-host of "It's Just Politics" joined us today.